FORMER immigration minister Amanda Vanstone has racked up a bill for private Chinese language lessons worth at least $31,000 that have been covered by taxpayers.
Fairfax newspapers reported the final amount for the Immigration Department could total $70,000 and includes a $3600 airfare to China for the Senator's teacher.

New Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews is reported to be deeply concerned by the spending and has demanded an audit into the spending.

FORMER immigration minister Amanda Vanstone has racked up a bill for private Chinese language lessons worth at least $31,000 that have been covered by taxpayers.
Fairfax newspapers reported the final amount for the Immigration Department could total $70,000 and includes a $3600 airfare to China for the Senator's teacher.

New Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews is reported to be deeply concerned by the spending and has demanded an audit into the spending.

This is the same stupid bitch who has overseen the largest immigration of Chinese into Australia since the gold rush and who wants to force all high school students to learn Chinese if they want their HSC. Is this some kind of fetish of hers or what?

Vanstone defends spending $30,000 on language efforts
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"If money had been spent for someone to come in and just give me tutoring in a language so I can order a gin and tonic or you go to a restaurant and order a meal, as in Mandarin for me, that would be fair enough to complain," she said.

"But that's not what it is.

"It's helping with speech preparation, for particular delegations and things."

Ms Vanstone said she made no secret of that.

"I don't know why it's such an issue now, it's really an issue because someone's added it up over four years and said, 'This is for teaching her Mandarin' when it isn't, it's for helping with drafting, getting a draft right and helping with a little bit of the delivery so that you don't call someone a filthy cow," she said.http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...3/s1875942.htm

Reckon Amanda has been called a filthy cow herself once or twice before :cow

This is the same stupid bitch who has overseen the largest immigration of Chinese into Australia since the gold rush and who wants to force all high school students to learn Chinese if they want their HSC. Is this some kind of fetish of hers or what?